Download VS 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 Training Kit Beta 2

 

The Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Training Kit includes presentations, hands-on labs, and demos. 

 This content is designed to help you learn how to utilize the Visual Studio 2010 features and a variety of framework technologies including:

• C# 4.0
• Visual Basic 10
• F#
• Parallel Extensions
• Windows Communication Foundation
• Windows Workflow
• Windows Presentation Foundation
• ASP.NET 4
• Windows 7
• Entity Framework
• ADO.NET Data Services
• Managed Extensibility Framework
• Visual Studio Team System

This version of the Training Kit works with Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 and .NET Framework 4 Beta 2.

Download VS2010TrainingKitSetup.exe

WF 4 Migration Guidance

Download WF 4 Migration Guidance

These documents help .NET developers better understand and evaluate Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) in the Microsoft .NET Framework 4, and the impact of WF 4 on existing WF workflows and code.

This collection of documents by the WF product team should help .NET developers currently using WF in the .NET Framework 3.0 and 3.5 to evaluate .NET Framework 4. The documents map concepts between the existing WF model (defined as the types in the System.Workflow.* namespaces, or WF3) and the new WF model (defined as the types in the System.Activities.* namespaces, or WF4).

The documents and code samples are expected to be updated semi-regularly as additional content is created, and based on the feedback we receive, starting with the release of .NET Framework 4 Beta 1, and continuing through RTM of .NET 4.

Feedback and questions around the documents should be directed to the WF 4 Forums.

Download WF 4 Migration Guidance

Hands-on Labs for Windows® Workflow Foundation in C# and VB.NET

Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) is the programming model, engine and tools for quickly building workflow enabled applications on Windows. This download is a collection of hands-on labs for Windows Workflow Foundation. The HOL contains both C# and VB.NET versions of the labs to help .NET developers learn WF. These labs are suitable for a .NET developer with 6 months experience who wants to learn about Windows Workflow Foundation. Each lab is approximately 60 minutes of work. The download package includes lab manuals for each lab, pre-requisite files for the labs and sample completed solutions for each exercise in the labs. MSDN has more information about Windows Workflow Foundation.

This download comes in two flavors for download. The first download (WFHOLs.exe) is a set of 10 hands-on labs for WF development using .NET 3.0 in Visual Studio 2005. These labs start with an introduction to WF and explore intermediate and advanced WF topics and functionality.

The second download (WFHOLs-3.5.msi) is a set of 11 hands-on labs that have been updated for use with .NET 3.5 and Visual Studio 2008. This lab contains the ten labs for .NET 3.0, and includes an additional lab to demonstrate to the WF developer how to use the new Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) activities added with the .NET Framework 3.5.

Note: Using the .NET 3.0 labs with Visual Studio 2005 requires the release version of the Windows Workflow Foundation extensions.

Download "Hands-on Labs for Windows® Workflow Foundation in C# and VB.NET"